Festival shines spotlight on outdoor thrills and laughs
Fingers crossed for the weekend weather to be as good as the forecasters are predicting, because the 2012 Surrey Children’s Festival theme of “Your Turn to Shine!” sure goes better with sunny skies.
Today through Saturday, Bear Creek Park and the Surrey Arts Centre will once again host kids and their keepers for outdoor activities — many of them free — plus ticketed performances by performers from all over.
Acrobat Li Liu, born in northeastern China but now based in New York, excels in juggling, balancing and plate spinning.
Plus her show has lots of interaction, such as learning some Chinese pronunciation.
The Gizmo Guys — also from the U. S. — celebrate a quarter- century of making audiences laugh as they mix snappy patter and astonishing juggling tricks. There’s also plenty of humour in A Flock of Flyers, which asks us to believe that the 217th Canadian Flying Squadron has no aircraft — can the audience help with their training?
Closer to home, Monster Theatre crosses the Fraser River from Vancouver with Mini- Masterpieces, a quick study of Canadian Wonder Tales by Cyrus Macmillan, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain and Tales from the Arabian Nights designed to encourage kids to read.
For more information, go to surreychildrensfestival. ca or call 604- 501- 5598.